The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-25

ical-ooking pictures printed in some illustrated
newspapers. pretending to represent my PRONE,
/ herewith give my personal appearance
Aee-Forty-am often taken for thirty.
Heighth-Five feet, Eve and three-fourtas
inches.
weight-One hundred an d forty pounds.
Body-Complete and well built.
Head-Round and plnmp.
Brains-Let the public ass on that
Congratulations. lgh and bright
Eyes-The same
Hair-Brown worn short
Manners-Those OF a high-toned Oh ristian
gentleman.
Habirs-I do not dissipate in any way
Health-E xcellent.
My time is pleasan tly spent in reading, writ.
ing and entertaining company. l have no
anxiety about myself for this world or the next.
The 10 I'd always takes care of His man.
Put this in after the item marked Personal"
in the appendix
Z o Newspapers:
Certain newspaper cranks delight in the use
of the words .sGuteau the assassin Tho
word assassin is getting to be high-toned word.
Applied to me IL sounds as well as the word
patriot"
GuIteau the Patriot.
Guteau the Assassin.
Cranks can take their choice.
The most venomous men in the American
press this Guiteau-Garfeld business are
Josef Medil. OF the Chicago Tribune, W. Reid,
of the New York Tribune, NJ. Halstead. of the
Cincinnati Commercial. and Curtis. the man
milliner of Harperfs Weekly. These fellows
badly cranked they will be in a lunatic asy-
lum if they do not have care. They should
remember that Grant. Conkling and Arthur
elected General Garfield, and not them. I
hereby invite them to join the Grant-GuI-
teau-Arthur combination. and behave them
selves. l hereby notify them to hold their VEN
om Let them stop cursing Gods man. Ii tEey
cannot let them follow the advice of Jobs wife,
Curse God and die" Then the Almighty will
this matter. The poodle dogs of The minor
press" as Horace Greeley called the two-cent
dailies, are hardly worth my notice. l pass
them as Fifth-avenue gentleman would the
bark of a
Some cranky stuff follows about the initials Of
Garfield, Arthur and himself, making certain
vailing in the country he claims to have
from and followed my Inspiration" Tho
send" is added, for the rest of my enemies
SOON In this manuscript Guiteau screams
out: Beware, We minions of the law. how 20
treat me. lest We kindle the wrath of the Deity
and perish from the way"
The mo st remarkable papers in the book. out
side those written by Gulteau. five letters
written by CLARA Augusta Davis" OF Hoboken.
N j., the first bearing date Dec. %, 1881 Evil
IDENTIFY the writer young. unmarried. well
educated. with some talent and woful lack OK
goo0 judgment. She writes of her father q
prominent lawyer tells of the family carriage,
her brother. friends and daily pursuits. in a
most unrestrained way. Guiteau wants her
portrait. 1t is doubtful il he got it, she
writes of continued failures to get to the photog-
rapher's. The first letter endeavors to prove
to Guiteau how easily he can be deceived by the
alleged "inspiration," which is written of as "un-
natural and abhorrent." Miss Davis tells OF .
female friend who had similar homicidal lin
spiraticn," directing her by the application of .
dose Of morphine to save disslpated brother's
soul. In the letter the writer is evidently SEEK
ing to make Guiteau feel his terrible error"
1t proceeds upon the hypothesis that the assas-
sin does believe in his theory, but be-
convinced out of it. The other letters show that
Guiteau captured the writer. She says all she
ladies of her acquaintance do not believe him
"to be animated by malicious and malignant
spirit" She denounces Arthur In letter
Miss Davis wrote: al would have You,
while never doubling the sgenuineness of your
inspiration remove Garfield, bear in mind that
it may have been part of the divine dispensation
that your mortal part should bnild
still higher the hecatomb of martyrs that has
been reared by that Christian Moloch-that pro-
fame Trinity-Passion, Prejudice. Perversive
Power
The whole collection is strange 1t
should be put into the Library OF Congress
national curiosity. There much more IN it
than is here sketched. It establishes conciu-
sively to any unparalleled mind that Guiteaus
egotism was a disease. mental and physical,
partly affected by disordered sexuality. which
also to be the with of the fe-
male correspondents. and that il he still pre-
served any legal sanity At the time of the assas-
snation, he was Individually in at the time
of rsa ion